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Brian:
> But the 'restricted sites" settings only effect those sites designated as
> such on that panel, no? Wouldn't you have to know the site that was
> going to send you the virus for this to do any good? Am I missing
> something?
Outlook Express allows you to use the Restricted Sites settings for all
e-mail. If you want to use the Restricted Sites settings in Internet
Explorer, yes, you do have to designate each website address as
restricted.
> If I were to set all the "Internet" panel options to disable I would
> think I might be safer but it would make for difficult browsing.
Yes, it would be safer but more difficult. For the "Internet Zone," I
have custom settings to disable a lot of the less secure actions, and
several (such as active scripting) set to prompt for permission. Kind
of a pain, but what's a person to do.
> For a while I had just the "prompt before storing cookies" option
> because I didn't like all the stuff piling up in my hard drive, but it
> made me too crazy with the prompt coming up all the time. Any
> ideas?
A happy medium might be to disable cookies that are stored on your
computer, but permit or prompt for per-session cookies (which are
not stored). At least the snoops will not get an ongoing history of
your browsing habits that way.
Glen
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Glen Wallace" <gcwallace@xxxxxxxx>
> To: "Omega Listserver" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "MetaStock listserver" <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 9:46 PM
> Subject: Re: VIRUS ALERT
>
> > > > The Trojan horse program, which is hidden in an HTML (hypertext
> > > > markup language) format e-mail message, carries two attached files
> > > > that are executed automatically when an infected message is opened on
> > > > PCs running Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system and e-mail
> > > > client software such as Outlook.
> > >
> > >
> > > Yet another reason NOT to use LookOut. Or any other "smart" mailer.
> > > Personally I use Pegasus. It works just fine for 98% of the emails I
> > > get. A few of them don't display with the pretty wallpaper and other
> > > foo-foo, but most of those are spam anyway. And in NO case is that
> > > wallpaper critical to the content. Meanwhile Pegasus is too "stupid"
> > > to get infected by script virii like this.
> > > And it's free. http://www.pmail.com
> >
> >
> > And one of the reasons e-mail list etiquette says you don't post using
> > HTML. Regardless, Outlook Express allows you to change your settings
> > to not allow scripts and other such instructions to run. Users who
> > regularly receive HTML mail should go to the Security tab in OE's Tools |
> > Options... and change the Security Zones setting to "Restricted sites
> > zone." Now, Win98's Restricted Sites Zone's settings still have some
> > weaknesses, so go to Internet Options in Control Panel, select the
> > Security tab and click on the Restricted Sites icon. Click the Custom
> > Level... button and change all the settings to "Disable", click OK, OK
> > and exit from Control Panel.
> >
> > These settings won't stop the execution of phone-home bugs in HTML
> > e-mail (you need a firewall for that), but it will stop a lot of the
> > nasties.
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